Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Category: SOMA

  • SOMA – Inner City Home and Truth

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    SOMA and Market Street Areas of San Francisco This is by Ricardo Gouveia, a Portuguese artist residing in San Francisco.  From 1984-2002, Rigo used the last two digits of the current year as part of his name (in this case Rigo94) , finally settling upon “23″ in 2003.  As part of TODCO’s Inner City Arts Program,…

  • SOMA – Frisco’s Wild Side

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    SOMA – San Francisco Langton between Folsom and Harrison This newly restored mural is on Langton Street between Folsom and Harrison in the South of Market area. Originally painted in 1995 by Precita Eyes it is called “Frisco’s Wild Side”.  It took more than 70 participants to plan and paint depictions of endangered species in North…

  • SOMA – Meagan Spendlove

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    SOMA – San Francisco This mural is on the corner of 10th Street and Sheridan in the South of Market Area of San Francisco.  The artist is Meagan Spendlove.  Her website reads “Meagan Spendlove currently works in San Francisco, California as a professional designer, illustrator and project coordinator. Her latest endeavors include yet are not…

  • SOMA – Califor’ya

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    SOMA – San Francisco This mural is on a building at the corner of 7th and Folsom Streets, (It is on the 7th Street side) in the South of Market area of San Francisco. It was done by 1:AM short for First Amendment, a gallery at 1000 Howard Street in San Francisco. According to 1:AM…

  • Tutubi Plaza – Make it Healthy

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    More Tutubi Plaza This is Super Hygiene Man.  He and his mates are on the Russ side of what used to be the SOMA health center.  These fellows sit on the wall of Tutubi Plaza that faces the butterflies.

  • Tutubi Plaza – Dragonflies

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    Tutubi Plaza – SOMA – San Francisco This little area has become a hub for the Filipino Community in the San Francisco area. Tutubi means dragonfly in Tagalog.  This mural is by Johanna Poethig..  Johanna was born in the Philippines, so I am sure this was especially important to her.  She received her BFA from UC…

  • SOMA – Tutubi Plaza

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    Tutubi Plaza Russ street, between Natoma and Minna in SOMA, San Francisco. This is a San Francisco Redevelopment project, first proposed in 2008 it was finally finished in February of 2011.   This pavement installation is by Jovi Schnell.  Jovi was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas and lives in San Francisco, she studied…

  • Embarcadero – Commuting

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    This is our temporary Transbay Terminal.  The old one has finally been demolished.  The Transbay terminal was originally built in 1936 to handle the trains that came across the Bay Bridge into downtown San Francisco.  However, after WWII, the train lines were removed and the terminal became a bus depot.  Over the years it has…

  • SOMA – Defenestration

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    6th and Howard SOMA AS OF JUNE OF 2014 DEFENESTRATION HAS BEEN REMOVED Defenestration is at 6th and Howard Street in San Francisco.  Not only is it about two blocks from my house but  I also had the privilege of working with its artist Brian Goggin (before this installation) through a charitable organization LEAP, which…

  • SOMA – Faces

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    555 Mission Street SOMA Moonrise East December The sculptor and mixed media artist is a Swiss, based in New York named Ugo Rondinone. The sculptures are of mottled aluminum. Moonrise is the title of a series of 12 giant, ghost-like sculptures each named for a month of the year, and standing nine feet high. Their…

  • Living Walls

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    Using plants for architectural and artistic statements is as old as time, but I am fascinated about how it is becoming part of the main stream.  I was driving down 10th and spotted this newly installed gem at the corner with Bryant.  These things are so amazingly versatile.  Indoors, outdoors, sun, shade, they apparently create…

  • San Francisco – Public v Private Art

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    555 Mission Street SOMA Public versus private art.  This piece entitled Human Structures by Jonathan Borofsky is a permanent installation at 555 Mission Street.  The two heads are part of a series of three by Ugo Rondinone entitled Moonrise Sculptures.  The city of San Francisco has two ordinances to promote art. The first is a zoning…

  • Berwick Place – Murals

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    Berwick Place and Heron Street Unknown Artist – I love the tree as an opponent.  The light at this end of Heron was not particularly good, it is a very narrow alley with a building blocking the light from this part of the wall, but the images are wonderful.  The subtle use  of pink to…

  • Random Mural of San Francisco

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    Berwick Place and Heron Unknown Artist

  • Rammaytush

    Rammaytush

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      These plaques run along the south side of King Street, between the Caltrain station and AT&T Park.  There are 104 of them embedded in the sidewalk. On them are engraved all of the known words of a language called Rammaytush. The Rammaytush language is one of the eight Ohlone languages, historically spoken by the…

  • Honoring the Workers

    Honoring the Workers

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    Corner of Mission and Steaurt An Injury to One is an Injury to All – The rallying cry of the Wobblies.  That is the name of this sculpture found on the corner of Spear and Mission Streets, San Francisco. The brass plaque that accompanies it reads “In memory of Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise, who gave…